Posts Tagged ‘Clarence Brown’

National Velvet

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
National Velvet
Call Number: VHS00240
by Clarence Brown; Mickey Rooney; Elizabeth Taylor; Donald Crisp; Enid Bagnold; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1971.
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (124 mins.); Based on the novel by Enid Bagnold; Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
Summary: Elizabeth Taylor is Velvet Brown, an English schoolgirl who has very big dreams. She falls for a thoroughbred rogue horse and with the help of Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney), she trains him for steeplechase racing
OCLC #: 42511445
Added: October 30, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Anna Karenina

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
Anna Karenina
Call Number: VHS00180 Copy 1
VHS00180 Copy 2
by Clemence Dane; Salka Viertel; S N Behrman; Clarence Brown; Greta Garbo; Fredric March; Freddie Bartholomew; Maureen O’Sullivan; May Robson; Basil Rathbone; Reginald Owen; Leo Tolstoy; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990.; Copy 2: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, [1987]
Notes: Originally released in 1935 (96 mins.); Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy;
Summary: In this story of doomed love set during the reign of Czar Nicholas I of Russia, the wife of a Russian aristocract falls for a dashing cavalry officer.
Also: See the Julien Duvivier directed Anna Karenina (VHS00088); 
OCLC #: Copy 1: 27215432; Copy 2: 16668402;
Added: October 22, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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The Eagle

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
 
The Eagle
Call Number: VHS00168
by Clarence Brown; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Hans Kraly; George Barnes; Hal C Kern; Carl Davis; David Gill; Kevin Brownlow; Raymond Rohauer; Rudolph Valentino; Vilma Banky; Louise Dresser; James A Marcus; United Artists Corporation.; Thames Television, ltd.; Channel Four (Great Britain); Film Classics.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Hollywood, CA : Film Classics, [198-?]
Notes: Originally released in 1925 (81 mins.); Silent film with new music score and English intertitles; Credit screens are from the 1985 reconstruction and are more complete than the original; Based on a story by Alexander Pushkin;
Summary: Rudolf Valentino is a Russian Robin Hood avenging wrongs as the Black Eagle.
OCLC #: 33222639
Added: October 21, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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The White Cliffs of Dover

Monday, October 20th, 2008
The White Cliffs of Dover
Call Number: VHS00159
by Irene Dunne; Alan Marshal; Roddy McDowall; Frank Morgan; Van Johnson; C Aubrey Smith, Sir; May Whitty, Dame; Gladys Cooper; Clarence Brown; Claudine West; Jan Lustig; George Froeschel; Alice Duer Miller; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, [1993]
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (126 mins.); Nominated for one 1945 Academy Award;
Summary: When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son’s own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
OCLC #: 28054680
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Song of Love

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Song of Love
Call Number: VHS00156
by Katharine Hepburn; Paul Henreid; Robert Walker; Ivan Tors; Irma von Cube; Allen Vincent; Robert Ardrey; Clarence Brown; Turner Entertainment Co.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (119 mins.);
Summary: A woman truly ahead of her time, Clara Wieck lights up the stage with her beauty and talent, captivating some of the greatest musicians of the period. But at the height of her career, Clara leaves the stage to marry composer Robert Schumann and raise their children. When Schumann dies, his student, now-famous Johannes Brahms, reappears to ask Clara to be his wife but Clara is consumed by a mission to return to the stage so the world will hear her husband’s music.
OCLC #: 25126710
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Plymouth Adventure

Monday, October 13th, 2008
Plymouth Adventure
Call Number: VHS00054
by Clarence Brown; Dore Schary; Spencer Tracy; Gene Tierney; Leo Genn; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1996.
Notes: Originally released in 1952 (104 mins.); Based on the novel by Ernest Gebler; Nominated for one Academy Award
Summary: The film features the story of the voyage of the Mayflower.
OCLC #: 36214165
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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